What is a typical genre of reply online that people seem to think is clever and pithy, but actually just makes them look tedious and stupid? The most obvious answer is simply 'being mean', but another one I'd add is 'repeating your sentence back to you with a couple of words changed'.
he gets a couple of mentions
Iāve long been frustrated at lazy critiques of capitalismā¦your video(s) are not that
Pre-monetary economies largely operated as "gift economies" meaning that goods were exchanged as gifts with an expectation of reciprocity. There's a tendency to see this as nobler and better than our monetary economies because gifts are altruistic and reciprocity is egalitarian but...
> me realising I answered my own question
Is there a word for someone who is so stuck in their tramlines that you quickly recognise it and realise that the conversation is going nowhere?
